Famous People with Name Clark

Clark Graebner            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clark Graebner: is an American professional tennis player, originally from Cleveland, Ohio, who won a number of championships. He graduated from Northwestern University, where he joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity. Graebner's wife Carole also was a successful touring tennis professional.

Clark Murray            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clark Murray: an American sculptor who is best known for his large outdoor constructions of welded and painted steel pipes.

Clark Leonard Hull            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clark Leonard Hull: was an influential American psychologist who sought to explain learning and motivation by scientific laws of behavior. Born in Akron, New York, Hull obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Michigan, and in 1918 a PhD in from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also taught from 1916 to 1929. His doctoral research on "Quantitative Aspects of the Evolution of Concepts" was published in Psychological Monographs.Hull conducted research demonstrating that his theories could predict and control behavior. His most significant works were the Mathematico-Deductive Theory of Rote Learning (1940), and Principles of Behavior (1943), which established his analysis of animal learning and conditioning as the dominant learning theory of its time. Hull is known for his debates with Edward C. Tolman. He is also known for his work in Drive Theory. Hull’s model is couched in evolutionary terms: Organisms suffer deprivation. Deprivation creates needs. Needs activate drives. Drives activate behavior. Behavior is goal directed. Achieving the goal has survival value.

Clark Coolidge            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clark Coolidge: is an American poet born in Providence, Rhode Island.Often associated with the Language School, his experience as a Jazz drummer and interest in a wide array of subjects--- including caves, geology, bebop, weather, Salvador Dalí, Jack Kerouac, and movies-

Clark Ashton Smith            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Clark Ashton Smith: was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. It is for these stories, and his literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937, that he is mainly remembered today. With Lo

Les Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Les Clark: was the first of Disney's Nine Old Men. Joining Disney in 1927, he was the only one to work on the origins of Mickey Mouse with Ub Iwerks.Ub Iwerks animated Steamboat Willie at his usual breakneck speed (it was completed in two months), Clark assisted by

Alan Marshall Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alan Marshall Clark: is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised (co-written by Jeremy Robert Johnson)

James C. "Jimmy" Clark, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

James C. "Jimmy" Clark, Jr.: was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1950s and 1960s; and on the Senior PGA Tour in the early 1980s.Clark turned professional in 1946. He won only two PGA Tour events, both in 1952. He was runner-up to Doug Sanders by four

Curtis Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Curtis Clark: is an American jazz pianist.Clark was born in Chicago in 1950, moved and spent his student years in Los Angeles where he started composing and playing the piano. After Curtis graduated in music theory and composition from the renowned Californian Institut

Garnet Clark            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Garnet Clark: was an American jazz pianist.Clark began playing professionally in his birthplace of Washington, D.C at age 16 in Tommy Myles's band. By 1934 he was playing regularly in New York City clubs; in the mid-1930s he recorded with Alex Hill and Charlie Barnet.